NBC’s Winter Olympic coverage from Sochi last night averaged a 5.6 adult 18-49 rating from 8:00-11:00 pm, actually above an unusually weak comparable night in Vancouver (5.4 rating) but well below Turin’s 6.8 rating on the same night. Last night’s coverage included: Ice Dancing Final, Men’s Aerials Final and Bobsled 2-Man Final.  A rather limited menu […]

BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS, boosted by the 1.97 for the WOMENS NCAA TOURNAMENT FINALS in the afternoon (up 1.06 from last year’s Finals on ESPN), jumped 0.23 to 0.65.  AMERICAN IDOL was steady at 0.65, and THE COMPANY YOU KEEP ticked down to 0.24. CBS:  Without NCAA games as a lead-in, 60 […]

>ABC led a very quiet Saturday night with a 1.2 Adult 18-49 from 8-11 pm in the preliminary fast nationals.  Wipeout at 8 pm averaged a 0.9 from 8:00-8:30 and 1.0 from 8:30-9:00, winning the hour.  ABC continued its winning ways from 9-11 pm with a 20/20 special, My Extreme Affliction (about people with extraordinary […]

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #9 of 2014 looks like $109 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, somewhat better than we forecast Wednesday ($100 million) but still 17% below the average for this weekend. Opening at 3,090 theaters Friday, Non-Stop from Universal grossed $10.0 million Friday, putting the film on track for a $30.0 million opening weekend […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  AMERICAN IDOL rose 0.08 to 0.61, and THE GOOD DOCTOR was up 0.04 to 0.34. CBS:  Reruns at 0.30/0.25/0.23/0.21. NBC:  THE VOICE gained 0.02 to 0.47, and THAT’S MY JAM was down 0.05 to 0.32. FOX:  9-1-1 edged up 0.02 to 0.53, and FANTASY ISLAND was down 0.04 to 0.17. CW:  […]

> A preview of next season’s schedule? CBS:  The network experimented with a new episode of THE MENTALIST at 9PM, and while the 2.0 rating was 20% below the show’s Thursday season low, Friday offers fewer available eyeballs, so a decline was to be expected.  Mentalist nevertheless considerably outrated what CSI NY and A Gifted […]

  Viewers remained unenthused about this year’s NBA FINALS. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Ratings […]

  UPDATE:  RESURRECTION only got bigger in final numbers, rising 0.2 to a huge 3.8 (crushed by THE WALKING DEAD, but still).  That tied the debut of THE BLACKLIST last fall–and of course BLACKLIST had a giant lead-in from THE VOICE to help launch it.  The midseason premiere of ONCE UPON A TIME went up […]